I'm creating a sci-fi story and one of my main characters has the ability to transfer her sensations to a target. This makes her difficult to fight in hand to hand combat since you would feel the blow ...

Would guns be a practical weapon in a battle between two or more humans with superspeed and enhanced reflexes?
I'm not thinking Flash-style catching bullets, but people who can move at around 200 mph (...

I want to tell my kid an Atlantis-like story, where humans had the minimum required super powers to enable a group of people to create 1910s technology in a fairly quick and easy manner.
I have a bit ...

Let's say oil had never been used as an energy source, and while it could still be a resource for other things, let's say it's not as important or valuable as it is today.
And let's imagine somehow ...

This question's quite a complex one, so be prepared.
How do I design a consistent naming system, that would have been created by a reigning ultimate authority, who supposedly created the magic in the ...

I'm writing a story in the genre of Heroes, The 4400 etc in which a group of apparently random civilians, mostly US citizens, are subjected to some alien influence and gain strange powers, whereupon ...

Let me clarify the exact powers and limits of said villain:
He can, with extreme accuracy, predict everything that might happen in the next 24 hours. He does not know 100% for sure what will happen, ...

A random human, Bo, can reload life; whenever he dies, he simply loads back to before he was dead; whenever we catch him, he loads to before we catch him. Bo has been causing some problems and we need ...

Joe has a slightly embarrassing issue.
Simply put: Everything he says is true from that moment on until Joe himself contradicts it.
For example: If Joe were to say that hundreds of people turned up ...

Year 2067 C.E. could nanotechnology and bio-engineering one day bestow upon us incredible strength, enable anyone to bench press[1] 1 tons without assistance at 1g Earth surface gravity? No exosuit[2] ...

Let me pitch you a setting: The year is 2017, and thanks to an extradimensional portal Humans have begun to develop superpowers. The Power Scale for these supers is low-to-mid Street Level
(meaning ...

It's a staple in superhero stories with hypertech, for people to have some sort of serious inertia dampening technology. Either explicitly, or as a logical necessity.
For instance having an iron man ...

Bob is an average person in your country. One day, Bob wakes up and is omnipotent. He wants to form a cult that worships him and is the same size as one of the pre-Bob major religions. However Bob has ...

Basically, this is a hypothetical gameshow, which stemmed from a gameshow with participants being able to enter if given a death sentence, in order to alleviate their sentence, lessen it, etc.
There ...

Somehow you managed to knock out an elemental shape-shifter. Where do you put it?
Elemental shape-shifter: A person who can change their body to the four classical elements:
Earth (like the material)...

Riddick, a khajiit, and a gamer who put the gamma settings too high are sitting in a room. Somebody turns on a TV [technology (CRT, Plasma,...) is up to you], showing a surveillance camera footage but ...

A pharmaceutical company begins drug trials of a pill that they believe can activate a previously understudied and widely unknown region of the brain. The trial begins and when the first participants ...

The superman protagonist in my story built that building (over night--at least the shell)-
Base on lower Manhattan--the building is 0.6 mi (1 km) square up to ~5 mi up where it cantilevers out to 3 ...

The argument for superheroes to capture villains alive is that superheroes are already illegally operating as vigilantes and compensating for muggle law enforcement is all they are morally obligated. ...

I'm currently working on a computer game where malicious magical users transform others as a primary way of removing them and passifying threats. I thought I'd ask this a little more scientifically.
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The argument for superheroes to capture villains alive is that superheroes are already illegally operating as vigilantes and compensating for muggle law enforcement is all they are morally obligated. ...

You have the power to create anything you know how it works or how it is physically is structured. So you can create a PS4 if you know exactly how it works or if you know exactly how it looks. Or a ...

If you had the power to transmute any element you touch into one of the two immediately adjacent to it on the periodic table by adding or removing one proton and you tried using it on the silicon in ...

Victor dubs himself a "superhero," but most people don't see him as one. For one, he's likes to murder people. Specifically, he likes to murder large groups of ethnic and religious minorities.
What ...

My facial skin is allergic to any fabric so I never put on a mask. My alter ego is called Stack Man. One of my special ability inherited from my Kryptonian dad is the fringe; this is the most amazing ...

A man almost invincible to physical damage (regeneration from any damage in few seconds), with the power to kill people in few seconds from mid to short distance and being an exceptional swordsman, ...

So I've seen this question as to how a cape could work as a shield, but why else would 'classic' superheroes (Batman, Superman) wear a cape? Is there something about a cape that makes a person more ...

In my setting, multiple large groups are at war with each other for resources and power. The primary mode of fighting is using tanks on all terrain and environment types, although infantry, aerial, ...